Analysis on the route of conception vessel and governor vessel in Huangdi Neijing (The Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic)

Abstract

On the base of the analysis on the original text in Huangdi Neijing (The Yellow Emperor ¢s Inner Classic) and in association with the meridian tracing experiment results in transparent fish, rats and human body, the routes of conception vessel and governor vessel were recognized de novo. The starting site of conception vessel has been described as "the center of uterus" and "the inferior part of Zhongji (CV 3)", which refer to the same region. The running course of conception vessel includes 3 routes, named the deep abdominal route, the deep dorsal route and the superficial abdominal route. The governor vessel starts at Qugu (CV 2) on the pubis and its running course includes 4 routes, named the buttock-spine ascending route, the head-back descending route, the abdomen-face ascending route and the head-back midline route. Both the conception vessel and the governor vessel distribute on the anterior and the posterior aspects of the trunk, head and face, but they are in deep and shallow layers respectively, forming two cycles internally and externally. Such recognition is really not the pattern, known by the people, that conception vessel distributes in the front, while the governor vessel on the back.